Development of modular legged robots: Study with three-legged robot modularity

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1450-1455

  Chatterjee, Ranajit ^a   Nagai, Michiko ^b   Matsuno, Fumitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CPG; Locomotion; Modular robot; Multi legged robot

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GAIT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBOTICS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CPG; LOCOMOTION; MULTI-LEGGED ROBOTS; ROBOT STRUCTURE;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 14044254860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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